Title
Web based platforms in co-located practice: the use of a wiki as support for learning and instruction
Abstract
This study describes how a wiki platform worked as a resource in a university course on applied ethnographic research method. The platform was primarily used for uploading field notes from students' ethnographic work. We describe the use of the wiki in terms of how it supported orientations among students towards relevant competencies involved in fieldwork, and how teachers used it as a way of gaining access to students' work. We discuss these functionalities in relation to ethnomethodological work on learning-and-instruction, showing how wiki entries were used as references in students' and teachers' talk. Distributed activities were thereby made available for instructive practices, and the competencies involved in note taking and observation could be collaboratively oriented to. We thus show that although the wiki was a web based distributed tool, its primary pedagogical functionality lay in its being used as a resource in co-located face-to-face talk.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2007
CSCL
uploading field note,primary pedagogical functionality,ethnographic research method,wiki platform,co-located face-to-face talk,ethnographic work,wiki entry,co-located practice,relevant competency,instructive practice,university course
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.39
References 
Authors
16
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gustav Lymer1242.98
Johan Lundin2151.92
Barry A. T. Brown32134180.33
Mattias Rost437822.31
Lars Erik Holmquist51369210.85